I finally caved an picked up an iPod Touch this past weekend after learning about what to me is a killer app: Instapaper. Here’s what it does: You sign up for an account at Instapaper.com (free) then add a bookmarklet to your browser called “Read Later”. Then when you find yourself staring down a long [...]
I had to use a women’s room at a Mexican restaurant last month and can’t believe what I saw. Animals!
Saturday’s run with The Other Mike and Bill started along 46th Ave S where we headed North crossing E Lake Steet next to the West River Commons townhomes and apartments. And my neighborhood car repair service, Electra Tune: We heading Northwest from there along Dorman, which parallels W River Rd a block in. The backyards [...]
Minneapolis’ 2nd Ward’s Cam Gordon does it. And now Mayor RT Rybak is jumping into this blogging thing. But why would an elected official choose blogging as a communications channel? Here is Cam’s explanation: Welcome to Blogging, RT! Though there are some potential pitfalls – and we’ve found them – I strongly believe that blogging [...]
One of my MacBook Pro fans went crazy loud a couple months ago and started making more noise than a jet airplane taking off. One could try to make a case for it by stating that the white noise helps avoid distractions but that’s not a long term solution. So, I went to an Apple [...]
The City of Minneapolis has a new online form where you can drop gold stars on cops. Cool idea. The site also has forms where you can drop tips about cops who get blowjobs from hookers rather than arrest or help them. And one for complaints about officers pulling people over for DWBs (driving while [...]
On Sunday afternoon, I was talked into running Grandma’s Marathon, so on Monday, even though I felt like crap, I figured I needed to at least get out of the house for a bit. That bit may have been the shortest bit of running I’ve done as a workout to date. Starting from the corner [...]
This rainy run started just to the West of the light rail on 40th St E at 31st Ave S. I headed West from there past Roosevelt High School where neighboring residents have added murals to their properties: Further West, I passed Standish Green Condos at Standish & 40th, which were built on the former [...]
A Deets reader sent in this screengrab from the StarTribune homepage where the Strib is mixing pimping their Facebook page in with their headlines: What’s up with that? Having a Facebook page is all good. Letting people know about it is fine too. But should the StarTribune be doing that inline with stories of the [...]
Remember when the yellow pages companies were putting out press releases about how hard they’re working on creating opt-out lists so people can easily unsubscribe from phone books they don’t want? Well, it turns out that was a bunch of talk, as Christopher Long (aka Octaneboy) found out yesterday: Idearc Media’s customers paid for an [...]
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